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MILAN — Massimiliano Allegri is a doodler. Over the course of two hours, Allegri, the former Milan and Juventus manager, slowly fills the pad of paper in front of him. By the end, he has seven pages of scribbles and scrawls and sketches.
In some cases, the images are easy to identify: outlines of soccer fields, pockmarked with numbers to denote formations and arrows to highlight runs. Others are more hieroglyphic: in a corner of one sheet, a stick figure hangs, condemned, from a noose. Diagonally opposite, he has written the word “tablet.